Title and commencement

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and they come into force on 30 November 2022.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, “ the 1971 Regulations” (“ Rheoliadau 1971”) means the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971( 3).

Amendments to the Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2022

3.—(1) The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2022( 4) are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 2 (interpretation), substitute—

“2.   In these Regulations—

“ the Act ” (“ y Ddeddf ”) means the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016;

“ appointed day ” ( “y diwrnod penodedig” ) has the meaning given by the Act (see section 242);

“ assured agricultural occupancy ” ( “meddiannaeth amaethyddol sicr” ) has the meaning given by the Act (see paragraph 1( 5) of Schedule 12 to the Act);

“ assured tenancy ” ( “tenantiaeth sicr” ) has the meaning given by the Act (see section 242( 6) );

“ billing authority ” (“ awdurdod bilio ”) has the meaning given by section 1(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992( 7) ;

“ category of dwellings ” (“ categori o anheddau ”) has the meaning given by section 30(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992( 8) ;

“ dwelling ” (“ annedd ”) has the meaning given by the Act (see section 246( 9) );

“ hereditament ” (“ hereditament ”) has the meaning given by section 3 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

“ landlord ” (“ landlord ”) has the meaning given by the Act (see section 244(2));

“ relevant contract-holder ” ( “deiliad contract perthnasol” ) means a contract-holder (which has the meaning given by the Act (see section 7(5)) under a relevant converted contract;

“ relevant converted contract ” (“ contract wedi ei drosi perthnasol ”) has the meaning given by the Act (see paragraph 15(3)( 10) of Schedule 12 to the Act);

“ relevant improvement ” (“ gwelliant perthnasol ”) means an improvement—

“ rent ” (“ rhent ”) does not include—

but, subject to that, includes any sums payable by the relevant contract-holder to the landlord on account of the use of furniture, in respect of council tax or for any of the matters referred to in section 18(1)(a) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985( 13) , whether or not those sums are separate from the sums payable for the occupation of the dwelling concerned or are payable under separate agreements;

“ rent assessment committee ” (“ pwyllgor asesu rhenti ”) means a rent assessment committee constituted in accordance with Schedule 10 to the Rent Act 1977( 14) . ”

(3) In regulation 6 (assumptions in accordance with which the rent assessment commitee must determine rent)—

(a) in the words before paragraph (a), in the Welsh text—

(i) for “gael ei osod”, substitute “gael ei gosod”;

(ii) for “ymwneud â hi”, substitute “ymwneud ag ef”;

(b) in the words before paragraph (a), for “the same type of relevant converted contract as that”, substitute “an occupation contract of the same type as the relevant converted contract”;

(c) in paragraph (a), for “relevant converted”, substitute “occupation”;

(d) in paragraph (c), for “relevant tenant or licensee”, substitute “tenant, licensee”;

(e) in paragraph (d)—

(i) after “failure by the”, omit “relevant tenant or licensee or”;

(ii) after “terms of the”, omit “relevant preceding tenancy or licence or”;

(iii) after “relevant converted contract”, insert “or the tenancy or licence which existed immediately before the appointed day”.

(4) In regulation 8 (consequential amendments to the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971)—

(a) in paragraph (2)(b), which inserts definitions into regulation 2 of the 1971 Regulations—

(i) omit the definition of “relevant preceding tenancy or licence”;

(ii) omit the definition of “relevant tenant or licensee”;

(iii) in the Welsh text, in the words before the definition of “dwelling”, for “mannau”, substitute “lleoedd”;

(b) in paragraph (4), in the text which is inserted into regulation 3(3)(c) of the 1971 Regulations, omit “, relevant tenant or licensee,”;

(c) in paragraph (5), which amends regulation 5(1)(b) of the 1971 Regulations, for sub-paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a) for “assured tenancies or assured agricultural occupancies”, substitute “assured tenancies, assured agricultural occupancies or relevant converted contracts” , ”.

(5) In the Schedule, in the prescribed form, after “8. Improvements”, for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) Have you or any former tenant(s) or licensee(s) carried out improvements or replaced fixtures, fittings or furniture for which you or they were NOT responsible under the terms of the tenancy or licence/occupation contract? ”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Renting Homes (Rent Determination) (Converted Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. 2022/781 (W. 170)) (“ the 2022 Regulations”) make provision to enable a contract-holder under a relevant converted contract to apply to a prescribed person for a determination of rent and make consequential amendments to the Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971 ( S.I. 1971/1065).

These Regulations correct technical and typographical errors in the 2022 Regulations.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this instrument.